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Subject: Re: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs
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On Apr  6 20:15, Lee D.Rothstein wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr  6 15:14, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
>>>>         
>>> Can't have any files named [aA][uU][xX] dot *anything* in Windows, or 
>>>  anything dot [aA][uU][xX].
>>
>> Incorrect.  This is a restriction in the Win32 API, it's not a
>> restriction of the filesystem or the native NT API which Cygwin 1.7 uses
>> for file access (almost) exclusively.
>
> The specific problem symptoms that the original poster mentioned, I was  
> able to
> replicate WITH a windows app, which seems to me indicates that he was  
> using a win32 app, i.e.,
> GNU emacs for Win32?
>
> I apologize for my oversight and I certainly wasn't criticizing you, in  
> any way!

No worries.  I didn't feel criticized.  Maybe we were just talking of
two different things.  My point is that this isn't a generic problem
on Windows, just a DOS backward compatibility weirdness on the Win32
level.  That's why Cygwin 1.7 applications won't have that problem.


Corinna

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